Comments on: Version 3.1.4 of Peter’s Math Anti-Spam for WordPress

By: Dave Hodges

Dave Hodges — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:49:25 +0000

A system like this works well. I had a comment where the anti spam question was "3+3".
The commenter must have used a service because the anser typed in was "3+3"

However, I’ve noticed all too often that many sites have taken this to extremes, and the captchas are entirely unreadable – whether human or not – there is not much further the route of a plain text response can go – the method needs a twist.

By: Øyvind Granberg

Øyvind Granberg — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:46:19 +0000

Can you tell me how I can change the text on the "Submit Comment"-button?
I am trying to norwegianfy your excellent plugin.
I like useful "no frill" solutions…

Reply from Peter: That text is probably found in your theme’s comment and/or post templates. It’s not in this plugin’s files.

By: Gail from GrowMap

Gail from GrowMap — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:28:11 +0000

I believe the issue I’m seeing may be related to a conflict with the Hyper Cache plugin (based on a comment and your reply on this page). You said, "Reply from Peter: Did you recently add a caching plugin? If so, set the option “Use JavaScript to generate anti-spam code” to “Yes”."

Where is that option? In the Math plugin or the Caching plugin? I don’t see any options for the math plugin and nothing similar to that in the caching plugin.

Reply from Peter: In the WordPress admin interface, you should see Tools > Math anti-spam.

By: Gail from GrowMap

Gail from GrowMap — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:16:16 +0000

I have been getting intermittent complaints that the Math plugin has been intermittently failing and today I saw it myself. I have 3.1.3 installed.

Instead of a math equation ***INVALID*** is displayed. Is there a fix? Is this the latest version? (There is no indication there is a newer one.)

By: Rita NM

Rita NM — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:21:19 +0000

Hi Peter. I’m using the math anti spam plugin for my contact form.. so far no spam on my inbox.

By: Sham

Sham — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:00:26 +0000

I was using your captcha plugin long since.It was working great.But off late i am facing a problem.Suddenly the captcha image is not loading at all its telling **Invalid** .Do help me out..

Here is the screenshot:

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2930/pronw.jpg

Reply from Peter: Did you recently add a caching plugin? If so, set the option “Use JavaScript to generate anti-spam code” to “Yes”.

By: Riin

Riin — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:18:07 +0000

Ooh, sneaky. I like it! Can you tell me how to suppress the display of comments to just one page? I don't see an option for it, or do I need to enter something (?) into the custom fields? Thanks! Reply from Peter: Again, it varies, this time based on the theme. Usually, you can add an "if" statement around the output of comments in your comments.php template. On some templates, there will be some code such as if ($comments) which you can then edit to say if( $comments && 21 != $post->ID ) where "21" is the ID of your comment page. For a good user experience, you should then give the user a thank you page or message after they've submitted their message. Check this post for an outline on that.

By: Riin

Riin — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:07:52 +0000

Hi Peter. I’m using the math anti spam plugin for my comments, and I’m wondering if there’s a way to also use it in a contact form. Is there some code I can paste into the form to make it use your plugin?

Thanks!

Reply from Peter: Because contact form plugins do not hook into the WordPress comment system, at the moment there is no quick way to integrate my anti-spam code with them, although it’s certainly do-able. However, the exact way to do it would vary across contact form plugins. One quick and easy way to do this is to just use one normal page as a contact form — suppressing the display of comments posted to that page but still using the comments system.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:04:44 +0000

Hi Bill, my suggestions are to check that you have ported over any settings from before and also to make sure that the plugin has the correct path to the wp-config.php file (look for the $cas_wpconfig file in the plugin itself) — if you have moved wp-config.php or the wp-content folder from their normal locations. Since the image generation scripting has remained largely the same and you say the previous version works, I can’t think of any other obvious causes.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:43:46 +0000

To follow up I also installed the custom 3.1.3 plugin – no luck either. A further clue is that the I clicked on the image that doesn’t display to hear the sound and I got a single line message in the browser saying – "Some data has already been output, can’t send wav file" – I cannot find this message in custom_anti_spam.php so it is coming from the browser ….

Does this help you solve the problem?

best wishes
bill